🔥🚨 BREAKING — UPDATE: Ryan Michael English, who traveled to Washington intending to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during his confirmation, has been sentenced to 73 months in federal prison.
English admitted the weapons were meant to be used against Bessent at the Capitol. The attack was planned for the day of the Senate vote in 2025.
Prosecutors described it as a deliberate attempt to kill a Cabinet nominee.
The sentence falls short of the maximum possible under the charges.
Does 73 months adequately reflect the seriousness of bringing firebombs to the U.S. Capitol to assassinate a government official?